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PINNED Respect $HOME/.config/go/env
After adding eval $(/path/to/goz-env) in .profile, each time I log in to OMVS, I get 3 or 4 lines about $COMPILER_PATH. Can you add config to turn this off, please? Second, even if I have $HOME/.config/go/env (per XDG spec), go env says that `go` ...

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Command to display Regions with PWFI=N

Please provide an IMS command to easily list all regions/MPRs that are running based on PWFI=N or PWFI=Y.
over 6 years ago in IMS System Services / Commands 2 Not under consideration

Enterprise Cobol V6 - Still problems after PH35652 / PH36690 and trace program compiled with OFFSET

After applying fixes PH35652 (COBOL 6.3) and PH36690 (COBOL 6.2), we notice that there are still problems to trace the execution of programs compiled with the option OFFSET / OPTIMIZE (1|2). Despite the use of the OPTIMIZE (1) option, it happens t...
over 3 years ago in COBOL Compilers 6 Not under consideration

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over 3 years ago in IMS Database Manager / General DB 0 Not under consideration

AddBatch SQL support for Inserts

Customer measurements show that INSERT SQL statements are much slower than DLI Path Calls executed with the Universal Drivers. Customer likes to have addBatch support for speeding up SQL Inserts.
over 6 years ago in IMS Database Manager / Open Access DB 1 Not under consideration

Return Home Procedure improvement

CHINA MENTCHANTS BANK is using GDPS/MGM 3.13 3-site with IR function now. We use GDPS/MGM Return Home procedure to do planned site switch. We have the requirement to keep SITE2 data as a golden copy, but current procedure doesn't support. Could GD...
over 6 years ago in GDPS 0 Planned for future release

TPF Client channel does not support SSL

TPF is inquiring if there is any future possibility of adding SSL to our ZMQID DEF parms for our client channels to be defined securely. We are currently in a project with z/OS MQ and concerns are being raised creating channels without TLS on the ...
over 6 years ago in z/TPF Product Family / z/TPF 3 Future consideration

Simplify Json builtin routines

1) We tried the json commands in PL/I, but sorry, they are programmer unfriendly. If I want to use them well I have to write a program around them and this is really not what I want. 2) a variable type json would be interesting ... sample json get...
over 6 years ago in PL/I Compilers 2 Not under consideration

ZOS Connect to support OAuth1.0

Our team is trying to make call from Mainframes to APIs that were build on cloud, these APIs are being built behind OAuth 1.0. we see that ZOS Connect supports OAuth 2.0, Can IBM ZOSConnect support OAuth 1.0 calls, so that we donot need a proxy be...
almost 7 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

To allow Windows Authentication in ADDI for SQL server

Hello Team, We are using Windows account to login into our servers and our SQL server for AD resides in different windows server.So to communicate between different application server we use windows authentication (which is mixed authentication mo...
almost 7 years ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Not under consideration

Add the capability of Hydra support to CTC

There is a customer currently in the PoC process using IBM CTC and is very interested in the product but they are requiring Hydra Support.
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS 0 Future consideration